Dr. Winthrop-Young's talk acts as part of a l arger project on the influences\, analogies and correspondences which link the various shades of extreme Nazi chronopolitics to the growing profile of accelerationism and catastrophism in today's politics.
The Third Reich was keen to develop its own politics of time. It differed f rom other forms of fascist chronopolitics which still clung to established notions of progress and linearity. As Christopher Clark has shown\, Nazism aimed to exit history and withdraw into the timelessness of an ahistorical racial continuum in which nature absorbed politics. While this variant was prominent in the early years of the regime\, the Second World War and the g rowing possibility of defeat gave rise to other\, more radical and desperat e chronopolitical speculations. Looking at tropes that arose in areas as di stinct as propaganda\, philosophy\, pharmacology and changes to the pension system\, the talk will present the increasingly compressed\, accelerationi st and catastrophist notions of history that made up the "Nazi chronobscene ".
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Geoffrey Winthrop-Young (MA Freiburg\, PhD UBC) is Professor of German and Nordic Studies in the Department of Central\, East ern and Northern European Studies at UBC.
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